Florida city ordered to pay $885,000 after conversion therapy ban struck down
Palm Beach County and Boca Raton must pay $885,000 in legal fees after its ban against conversion therapy was struck down.
October 22, 2025
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I survived conversion therapy. Now it's coming back in softer words
Opinion: It’s not called "conversion therapy" anymore, but the message is the same: change or disappear. The Trevor Project’s latest findings reveal that behind the rebrand, the harm is only growing, argues Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez.
October 21, 2025
15 years after Tyler Clementi's death, vulnerable youth must still be protected
Opinion: Fifteen years after Tyler Clementi's death, his mother, Jane, calls on communities to stand up to bullying during this concerning political time of LGBTQ+ book bans and attacks on trans youth.
October 3, 2025
Here's how to save the lives of Black LGBTQ+ youth
Opinion: What young people need isn’t more silence or shame, it's affirmation, Trevor Project's Jaymes Black and activist Quintessa Swindell write.
September 22, 2025
Tammy Baldwin and Lisa Murkowski file bill to establish LGBTQ+ youth crisis line in law
Their legislation would revive the crisis line the Trump administration shut down.
September 17, 2025
Why a bipartisan group of lawmakers is demanding Trump save the LGBTQ+ 988 crisis lifeline
One lawmaker called the administration's explanation for cutting the service “insufficient and dangerous.”
July 17, 2025
Lawmakers call out Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ‘unconscionable’ apathy on eve of LGBTQ+ 988 Lifeline shutdown
“It’s heartbreaking, scary, and deeply harmful,” Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids, who said the Department of Health and Human Services should keep the successful suicide prevention program intact, told The Advocate.
July 16, 2025
Experts brace for crisis as Trump administration’s end to key emergency resource for LGBTQ+ youth looms
Despite bipartisan pushback, the Department of Health and Human Services is scheduled to discontinue the specialized service next week.
July 11, 2025
Cutting the cord on compassion, how one federal order cut lifelines to millions of LGBTQ+ youth
This decision by the Trump administration to abruptly end LGBTQ+ crisis support through 988 not only disregards empirical research but simultaneously silences the voices of countless vulnerable youth.
July 11, 2025
This gay grandpa was fined $16k for protesting trans youth suicides, and he would 'do it again'
James Lantz tells The Advocate about his arrest for gluing his hand to a Capitol railing while protesting trans youth suicides.
July 11, 2025
Pennsylvania fines gay grandpa with stage 4 cancer $16k for protesting trans youth suicide
James Lantz glued his hand to a railing inside the Vermont Senate after lawmakers refused to meet with him about trans youth suicides.
July 9, 2025
These crisis hotlines are still available for LGBTQ+ youth after Trump ends special 988 services
The Trump administration is cutting the 988 special service for LGBTQ+ youth, but there are still several existing lifelines for LGBTQ+ youth in crisis. Here are some.
July 7, 2025
Bipartisan House coalition demands RFK Jr. reverse Trump’s plan to end LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline
“It’s hard to get bipartisan letters, let alone legislation, on topics involving the LGBTQ+ community,” Democratic U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi said. “But this one touches a nerve."
June 26, 2025
Trump Administration to close LGBTQ+ youth suicide hotline in 30 days
The closure is several months ahead of its initial October 1 deadline, first revealed by leaked budget draft in April.
June 18, 2025
Ariana Grande & Pedro Pascal among 100 celebrities asking Congress to save LGBTQ+ youth 988 hotline
Over 100 celebrities are calling on Congress to secure funding for a hotline that supports LGBTQ+ youth considering suicide.
June 2, 2025
House Democrats demand RFK Jr. stop Trump’s deadly plan to end LGBTQ+ suicide prevention services
Lawmakers say the move to eliminate 988’s LGBTQ+ youth line is “shortsighted and dangerous” and “will have lethal consequences.”
May 13, 2025
Donald Trump just spent a week showing us how much he despises children
Opinion: He's ruining Christmas, deporting American kids (one with cancer), endorsing conversion therapy and more discipline in schools, threatening Sesame Street, and eliminating a youth suicide hotline, writes John Casey.
May 3, 2025
No, Canada hasn’t launched a suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ+ Americans
The internet rumor is false, but there are still resources available for people in crisis.
April 29, 2025
Activists hold 'die-in' at HHS to protest Trump health care cuts: in photos
At the die-in, while a narrator slowly read through a list of devastating health outcomes that HHS funding cuts will have on the LGBTQ+ community.
April 28, 2025
Trump administration to defund suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth starting in October
A leaked budget draft shows the federal government's plans to eliminate all funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services.
April 21, 2025
A queer media pioneer and the haunting specter of suicide during the holidays
“Check in on even your ‘strong’ friends. A caring, listening conversation that normalizes help-seeking can make all the difference,” says Dr. Christine Moutier.
December 16, 2024